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Council also passed an ordinance to advertise for bids for the Brandt Road expansion project. The city has $886,000 budgeted for the project, which will widen some of Ohio 598 and provide some infrastructure development for that area. |
The focus just now is almost entirely on our economic malaise — a huge, great spreading blob of interlocking problems that no superhero seems able to stop. So far the approach is “ready, fire, aim,” and our best economic thinkers are as clueless as the rest of us. In time, of course, we’ll either make a coherent start ... |
The intelligence community, in tune with the new administration, now tells us that the economic threat to our national security is greater than terrorism or the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps. But whatever the new intelligence line, our pre-economic-crisis situation in the world is not improving. The wa... |
Difficult, to say the least. The draft was abolished for political reasons that didn’t work, but the political opposition has become entrenched. Mr. Blankley thinks former President George W. Bush could have successfully restored it immediately after September 11, 2001. However, had he done so and then taken us to Iraq... |
Nevertheless, those of us who have served share a common experience that we found invaluable, and we like to think it made us better and more purposeful Americans. Nor do we believe it right to deprive succeeding generations — or our country — of that experience. |
Among Mr. Blankley’s other proposals: Return ROTC and military recruiters to all campuses accepting federal funds; articulate a national energy policy that eschews neo-romantic environmental pipe dreams and concentrates on developing real energy supplies; demand a stronger sense of responsibility among the national med... |
• John R. Coyne Jr., a former White House speechwriter, is co-author with Linda Bridges of “Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement,” published by Wiley. |
Rogue Amoeba, the guys with the strange name who have been making great software for the Mac OS X since 2002 have released a new application called Pulsar, which allows Mac fans to access the Sirius or XM Internet Radio feed without a browser. |
For those who may be interested there is a free preview which plays for a full 20 minutes before it ads a little noise overlay to motivate users to purchase a license key for just $15. The application is still effectively in beta and we will be sure to keep you updated as soon as it hits version 1.0. |
Stay tuned as I am sure this is just a taste of what is to come now that application developers around the net are realizing that satellite radio is not just some fad. |
It is good to see OSS developers show an interest in SAT/RAD. |
Mel and company need to embrace the (Open Source Software) movement. |
I am one of the lucky ones who was introduced to Linux/Unix a few years back, and have never looked back since. It can be a pain to learn but, no pain no gain, plus the benefits of learning command line are well worth the efforts. |
But right now Mel needs to focus on the present dept, and wait to work on R/D later. |
RHT/Redhat would be perfect for the companies software needs, if they are not already using them. |
It would be great to even see a GUI/less program to listen to SAT/RAD through lynx. All the faster, and no bloat!! |
What is a OSS and how does/would it effect SiriusXM? |
What is a command line? |
As you can see from my questions I have no idea of what you are talking about or how it effects, or could effect SiriusXM in a positive way.Forgive my ignorance on these subjects. |
Could you Please give a brief summary? |
Looks like the post I put up earlier with links did not go through. If you want just pull up your favorite search engine and Wiki Linux. |
Anyway, I see the same potential with siri/xm as I do with free software. Basically I see Microsoft selling us a product, and people having to except it whether they like it or not. But with free software, you can pick and choose what you want, just like SAT/RAD. |
The funny thing I also see is, Microsoft bashing OSS, just like the NAB/bloggers bash SAT/RAD. The potential is huge for siri/xm just like free software. We know we have a great product in radio because everyone is out to short side us. |
Now with rogue amoeba and the starplayr people writing code to spread SAT/RAD to phones and PC’s just shows me the huge potential here. |
Vapor, I am pretty certain that SIRI is running linux on there servers, and it is definitely in the birds they have up in the sky. |
Thanks Demonotaku, for answering the questions for Vapor. |
Hey Vapor, OSS = Open Source Software- Its basically an alternative to windows/mac. |
There are about 300 + different versions out there. |
Linux/Unix= Is open source software. |
Link above also covers GUI, or graphical user interface. |
RHT/Redhat is a linux operating system. |
I can almost guarantee that SIRI/XM uses Linux on there servers, and for the birds they have up in the sky. |
I am not sure how much more they could benefit from using open source software. We are actually seeing some of the benefits from the guys/gals who designed the starplayr and rogue amoeba. |
The great thing about OSS is, its free to modify, distribute under the GNU/general public license. Basically without free software we would not see these programs come out such as starplayr. And Bill Gates would have all of us enslaved to build his death star :). In fact Unix has been around a lot longer than windows. |
To me its a fun hobby, and I like to tinker with my computer, especially during this time of year. |
YEAH NOW IT GOES THROUGH LOL!!! |
If you want to use a nice product that isnt going to cost you 15 dollars then go to starplayr and use their products. They are the ones making an app for the iphone thats in private beta now. |
I have it installed on my mac and it works great. |
All nice for the consumer . . . too late for the equity holders. |
Damien Hirst's Spot Paintings: Are They Any Good? |
"I often get asked about the spot paintings," said artist Damien Hirst in 1997, interviewed eleven years after he'd begun painting colored dots on white, spacing them systematically and never repeating a color on any one canvas. People would say, "'I love your work, but why do you do those stupid spots? They're not goo... |
"Good" wasn't the point. Hirst wanted to be like a scientist. "Art doesn't purport to have the answers; the drug companies do," he explained. Right now, Hirst's spot paintings, hung in eleven Gagosian Galleries around the world for "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011," a multi-part stunt of an exhibition, look more ... |
The artist, notorious in the 1990s for displaying severed animal carcasses in cases of formaldehyde and more recently for creating a diamond encrusted human skull worth $100 million (the most expensive art made to-date, titled, fittingly, For the Love of God ), has always been more interested in systems and how to play... |
By the time Beverly Hills' Gagosian opened its chapter of "The Complete Spot Paintings" last night, four hundred people had registered for the challenge. Guests signed up at the opening too, and received their official "Spot Challenge" cards. One art auctioneer reasoned he could finance the international trek by sellin... |
An attorney from Echo Park admitted he had no intention of trying to win, but if he made it to New York, he could get three more stamps for a total of four, more than any of his friends would have. "It's all relative," he said. And, after all, you can only put so much effort toward the spots, "some of Hirst's more thro... |
Throw-away or not, the paintings themselves generated far more conversation than the challenge. A UCLA law student pointed out that if you stared into the middle of the smaller paintings for long enough, you'd be overcome with melancholy, and a collector standing near the bar noted that if you crossed your eyes and loo... |
"I don't know whether to laugh or cry," said art consultant Charlie Moffett after walking through all three rooms and stopping near a painting 21 feet wide. "Some of these look like they're still wet." It was the older, smaller, clearly dry paintings Moffett liked best, particularly one in a gold frame from 1992, befor... |
But you can if what you want is to make pristinely empty, pristinely easy paintings that advertise only their own consistency. |
BEIJING: Chinese officials expect a “little repercussion” and some “small shock waves” if the 76-year old Dalai Lama dies at this time. But they do not expect any major changes that can threaten the political stability in Tibet. |
"Of course there will be a little repercussion due to religious factors, but we will take that into consideration and will surely guarantee the long-term political stability in Tibet," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Communist Party’s Standing Committee in charge of Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress, said on ... |
Chinese officials have objected to a recent statement by the Dalai Lama, who recently said the system of reincarnation might be abolished after he is no more. |
"What he said does not count," Padma Choling, chairman of the Tibet autonomous regional government, said. “I am afraid it is not up to anyone (to decide) whether to abolish the reincarnation institution or not," he said while pointing out that it is a 1,000-year old tradition. |
Dealing with the issue of reincarnation is part of the larger program to avoid a possible upheaval in Tibet if and when the region’s spiritual leader dies. |
"I dare not say that Tibet will not see any incidents, big or small, forever, but I dare say that the current situation in Tibet is on the whole stable, and the Tibetan people wish for stability and are opposed to any king of trouble-making," he said. |
Tibet's former governor, Qiangba Puncog, was even more forthright. |
"Of course there will be some small shock waves due to religious factors, but we will take that into consideration and will surely guarantee long-term political stability in Tibet," he said. |
Zhang Qingli, the Communist Party chief in Tibet, said frankly that the region was still facing "very grave challenges" in the fight against separatist activities. |
Earlier this week, the Education Department released data examining four-year high school graduation rates for the 2010-11 school year, a result of efforts by the agency to create common data collection methods for every state. |
Before efforts were made to standardized such data, each state was responsible for its own methods, resulting in numbers that were largely incomparable. The preliminary data presented this week were based on tracking first-time ninth-grade students who graduated with a standard high school diploma within four years. |
The information was presented in a single-page PDF. The Next America team used the same data to create an interactive map, available below, to explore the data by racial and ethnic groups. |
Click on a state within the map to view the individual graduation rates for each. |
Note: Idaho, Kentucky, and Oklahoma requested deadline extensions for their reports and are not included in the list. Because of the incomplete list, the Education Department has not released national averages. |
Wake Forest? It did most of its work against Raleigh-area teams that haven’t produced a state champion since 1987. Anyone remember President Ronald Reagan? |
Mallard Creek is averaging more than 40 points a game against some of the state’s top teams. It will score more than 40 Saturday, too – and win a second straight state title. |
Here’s what Saundra Adams has to say about the chance of Rae Carruth raising Chancellor Adams. |
Sebastian Aho hasn’t done much against the Washington Capitals through five games, but there’s still time for the Carolina Hurricanes’ star player to have an impact, even with the Hurricanes facing elimination Monday in Game 6. |
The Apple Watch might have taken a big bite out of The Swatch Group’s market share, which owns luxury timepiece brands like Tissot and Omega. But the Switzerland-based company recently countered with a small victory over Apple when a Swiss court ruled in Swatch’s favor over the use of its “Tick different” slogan; which... |
Apple filed suit against The Swatch Group back in April of 2017 over the watchmaker’s use of “Tick different” to promote its series of NFC-equipped Bellamy watches that could be used to make payments through a registered Visa card. Apple claimed the slogan infringed on its “Think Different” ads which ran from 1997 unti... |
Example of Apple’s original “Think Different” campaign. |
Wander through any large city in North America and it won’t take long to stumble across a billboard or bus stop ad promoting Apple’s products, but apparently, the company’s massive advertising budget wasn’t quite so massive in Europe in the late ‘90s. According to Reuters, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court that wa... |
Sixteen years ago today, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were feeling lucky. |
On Sept. 4, 1998, the pair of Stanford University grads filed paperwork with the state of California to officially create Google Inc, hoping to turn their ideas about searching and indexing the World Wide Web into a profitable company. Armed with a $100,000 check from a co-founder of the since-acquired Sun Microsystems... |
GOOGLE.COM: With sites such as Yahoo, Infoseek and Excite constantly beefing themselves up into the online equivalent of mega-malls, it’s refreshing to find a search engine that does nothing but search. And search well. Google’s award-winning, commonsense approach nearly always seems to come up with exactly what you’re... |
Search is still far and away Google’s core product, but by now that little search engine has grown up into much more. Turned out we were wrong about the website’s limits — but not about whether it would be worth watching. |
People crowding a hallway vent their anger outside a lame duck session of the Joint Finance Committee Monday, December 3, 2018 at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. |
But in both states, Republicans maintained control of both chambers of the legislature. So, in anticipation of having to work with a Democratic governor, state lawmakers are aiming to pass legislation that would dilute the executives' powers. |
In Wisconsin, Gov.-elect Tony Evers, a Democrat, is fighting to beat back Republican attempts to weaken his authority, calling it "a repudiation of the last election." |
"The last election changed the state in a way that apparently the legislature has decided to not accept," said Evers, who defeated Republican Gov. Scott Walker in November. Evers told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that "everything's on the table" in terms of attempting to block the GOP plan, including legal action. |
The Republicans, who have enjoyed single-party rule in the state for close to a decade, are gearing up this week to pass a suite of changes in an "extraordinary session" - which is where the legislature calls itself back after the session ends - that would, among other things, limit early voting; move the Wisconsin 202... |
In Michigan, where Democrats last month won the governor's mansion as well as the races for attorney general and secretary of state, Republican lawmakers last week introduced measures that would water down the authority of the individuals in those positions on campaign finance oversight and other legal matters. |
A spokeswoman for the incoming secretary of state decried the move as "shameful," the Detroit Free Press reported. |
The moves in both states have drawn comparisons to Republican efforts in North Carolina in 2016, when lawmakers pushed through legislation limiting the authority of Roy Cooper, the state's Democratic governor, after he defeated incumbent Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican. |
Now that a Democrat is in the governor's mansion, some Republicans argue that maybe Walker had too much power and that to balance it out, power should be redistributed to the representative body. |
"Wisconsin law, written by the Legislature and signed into law by a governor, should not be erased by the potential political maneuvering of the executive branch," said GOP Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in a statement. |
"It is clearly partisan, and it's motivated by results of the election. It's a sore loser session," Mike Brown, deputy director of the liberal advocacy group, One Wisconsin Now, told The Post. "None of these bills were introduced before the election. They didn't consider them during regular session. There's no way the ... |
Because this is all happening at lightening speed, grass-roots activists have also had to organize fast. Protesters are descending on the capital, and Brown said the Wisconsin legislature's hotline crashed because of the volume of calls. |
The new McDonald's Family Stand at Hemel Town's Vauxhall Road ground. |
Details have been confirmed for Hemel Town’s McDonald’s sponsorship deal with local franchisee Alan Butchers as part of his ongoing efforts to support the community. |
The Tudors will receive sponsorship for the family stand for three years under the deal with McDonald’s franchisee Butchers, who also sponsors town basketball side Hemel Storm. |
The stand has branding from McDonald’s, which sponsored this year’s World Cup in Russia and is also a keen supporters of grassroots football in the UK. |
The stand has its own car park and family turnstile, and the McDonald’s restaurants in Bourne End, Apsley and Jarman Park will be staging a number of joint events with the football club throughout the season. |
Butchers said: “Hemel Town are a fantastic example of local grassroots clubs with a real community spirit and I’m delighted to be sponsoring them over the next three years. |
Hemel MP Sir Mike Penning, who is president of Hemel Town, said: “I am delighted that McDonald’s are sponsoring the stand at the ground. |
Hemel’s vice-chairman Kerry Underwood, who arranged the deal, added: “This is an important statement both by McDonald’s and Hemel Town. |
Pierre LeBrun joined Melnick in the Afternoon live from Tampa Bay to recap Game 1 between the Blue Jackets and Lightning. |
Former NHL defenceman Aaron Ward joined Melnick in the Afternoon to preview the series between the Hurricanes and Capitals, and much more. |
NBC's Pierre McGuire joined Mitch Melnick, Mitch Gallo and Joey Alfieri to recap the Blue Jackets' huge comeback win over the Lightning. |
TSN's Ray Ferraro joined Melnick in the Afternoon to recap the Islanders' Game 1 win over the Penguins and much more. |
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck so far hasn’t come through on a promise to provide a new truck for two women injured by officers in pursuit of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner, an attorney for the women said Monday. |
Beck last month pledged to provide the truck to Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71, who were delivering newspapers in Torrance when LAPD officers riddled their blue Toyota Tacoma with bullets. Dorner was believed to be driving a gray Nissan Titan. |
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